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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Speech',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		It looks like a date&apos;s been set for course registration.
		Registration opens up on the seventh of next month.
	</p>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I glanced at a few of the listed speeches that had interesting titles, but only <a href="https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/synopsis/articles/29-The-Great-Dictator-s-Speech">The Final Speech from The Great Dictator</a> really grabbed my with its first paragraph.
			It talks about not wanting to rule over anyone, but to instead work toward making everyone happy.
			It continues, discussing the fact that we could <strong>*all*</strong> be prosperous, but greed has caused us to lose sight of that; caused us to take more than we actually even have a use for, plunging others into poverty.
			I literally cried a bit, thinking this is someone who gets it.
			This message is something I&apos;ve tried to convey countless times, but even the poor seem to stand up for the greed of the rich in many cases.
			<q cite="https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/synopsis/articles/29-The-Great-Dictator-s-Speech">Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.</q> (Chaplin, n.d.)
			I just don&apos;t understand why people can&apos;t see the greed and corruption.
			That was only the beginning; with each new paragraph, I found myself hit by a stronger wave of tears.
		</p>
		<p>
			It also says that we all, as humans, want to make each other happy.
			It says we don&apos;t <strong>*want*</strong> to hate one another.
			I deeply and sincerely wish this were true.
			It&apos;s certainly true for some of us, but for others ... some people want to hate.
			Some people want to have an enemy of which they can oppose.
			If they can&apos;t find a real enemy, they&apos;ll create one by choosing something small and insignificant, then blowing it out of proportions.
			My mother, for example, is often like that.
			She needs an enemy or she doesn&apos;t feel right and has to create one.
			She needs someone to oppose, to harm in small ways, and to complain about.
			She&apos;s not the only one either.
			I&apos;ve seen this pattern in so many people.
			She&apos;s just the one I&apos;ve known my whole life, so I&apos;ve seen the pattern in her the longest.
		</p>
		<p>
			Charlie Chaplin&apos;s character, the one making the speech, says not to despair.
			He says things will get better; that greed will pass, while love and kindness will prosper.
			I&apos;ve yet to see any evidence of this that isn&apos;t paired with even stronger evidence of the contrary though.
			One of a multitude of reasons I&apos;ll never have children is that I can&apos;t bring myself to inflict this horrid world on anyone, especially someone I&apos;m supposed to grow to <strong>*love*</strong>.
			The most loving thing I can do for my children is to not create them.
			After the character shows he understands how horrid humanity is to one another, the second half of the speech is a call for people to reject the way the world is now and work to change it.
			There are some of us answering such a call, but most people just go with the flow, even when the flow leads somewhere horrible.
			This character has a lot more faith in humanity than I do.
			Every time I start to believe in people again, that faith is crushed, without exception.
			If we ever end up somewhere positive, it won&apos;t be in my lifetime or the lifetime of the next generation.
		</p>
		<p>
			I don&apos;t know who the author of the speech is, so I can&apos;t say I do or don&apos;t know them much better now.
			I guess I know them a bit better.
			The speech was written for Charlie Chaplin&apos;s character to speak; what that means is that the author of the speech didn&apos;t necessarily <strong>*believe*</strong> anything it says.
			It was all for performance, and people create all sorts of characters without necessarily siding with them, especially seeing as the characters often oppose one another.
			You can&apos;t side with them all.
			Often times, I don&apos;t even think the writers completely side with the protagonists.
			In some cases, they verifiability <strong>*don&apos;t*</strong>.
			What the speech tells me about the author though is that the author is <strong>*capable*</strong> of these thoughts.
			They&apos;re able to see things from the perspective of this dictator that wants to help humanity.
			Whether they actually felt these things before and/or after the movie&apos;s production is unknown.
		</p>
		<div class="APA_references">
			<h2>References:</h2>
			<p>
				Chaplin, C. (n.d.). The Final Speech from The Great Dictator. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/synopsis/articles/29-The-Great-Dictator-s-Speech"><code>https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/synopsis/articles/29-The-Great-Dictator-s-Speech</code></a>
			</p>
		</div>
	</blockquote>
</section>
END
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